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Local star shines
at Canadian
Screen Awards
Tatiana Maslany.
Award for leading
role in sci-fi drama
series Orphan Black
the latest of several
accolades for Reginaraised performer

Tatiana Maslany walks the red carpet at the Canadian Screen Awards in Toronto on Sunday, before
winning for leading actress in a television drama series for Orphan Black.
FRED THORNHILL/THE CANADIAN PRESS

Saskatchewan’s Tatiana Maslany continued her roll on red
carpets on Sunday night, winning the honours for leading
actress in a television drama
series at the Canadian Screen
Awards.
The Regina-raised actress
took the award at the Toronto
gala for her leading role in
the science-fiction series Orphan Black, which debuted
last year on the Space cable
channel in Canada and on
BBC America in the U.S.
“I don’t think any of us

foresaw how it was going to
be received, and also I just
think it just hit at the right
time,” Maslany, 28, said recently of the success of Orphan Black, for which she
was nominated for a Golden
Globe Award in January in
addition to wins at last year’s
Critics’ Choice Television
Awards and Television Critics Association Awards in the
U.S.
In the series, she portrays
seven clones with vastly different personalities and accents.
“I just think it came out
at a time when there was, I
don’t know, maybe a need
for women onscreen or something, or young women onscreen,” Maslany added.
“We have a lot of young
fans, young women who are
fans and it must speak to
them on a level, because I
don’t know how many shows

there are out there with these
kinds of women in it as the
leads.”
She describes her experience at the Golden Globes as
“just a bizarre, whole other
world” in being nominated
for best actress against some
of Hollywood’s premier female stars of the small screen.
“It’s unlike anything I’d
ever experienced before,”
said Maslany, who didn’t win.
“I very much felt like an
observer on the outside of a
very crazy experience.”
Orphan Black has also
won Canadian Screen Awards
in acting for Jordan Gavaris,
Maria Doyle Kennedy and
Natalie Lisinska, and for writing, direction, photography,
picture editing and production design or art direction.
The second season of the
series will begin airing in
April. THE CANADIAN PRESS, WITH
FILES FROM METRO

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Program IDing aboriginal
cancer patients launches
SCA. Pilot program
info will be used for
primary prevention
and discharge care
SARAH
TAGUIAM

sarah.taguiam@metronews.ca

The Saskatchewan Cancer
Agency (SCA), First Nations and
Métis groups have partnered
for the first time to address
gaps in cancer care for aboriginals in the province.
The organizations were recently granted $1.07 million for
the project, which will identify
First Nations and Métis people
with cancer within the healthcare system.
“We recognize that there
might be some gaps in terms of
culturally responsive programs
… and having this information
will have us monitor programs
better,” Riaz Alvi, the SCA’s epidemiology and performance
measurement provincial leader, told Metro.

Who’s involved

The initiative will be piloted on patients from the
English River First Nation
Health Clinic, Ochapowace
First Nation, Battleford
Tribal Council Indian Health
Centre and registered
citizens of Métis NationSaskatchewan.

The
information
they
gather will also be used for
programs concerning primary
prevention and discharge planning, as aboriginal patients go
through their cancer journeys,
Alvi added.
“Our goal is to reduce the
burden of cancer in First Nations and Métis people in
Saskatchewan, by creating a
surveillance system that will
achieve the best outcomes and
effectively advance cancer control,” Sandra Youngchief, director of health for Métis NationSaskatchewan, said in a news
release.
Part of the goal, Alvi said, is

Riaz Alvi, the Saskatchewan Cancer Agency’s epidemiology and performance measurement leader, has high hopes for
the program aimed at identifying aboriginal cancer patients. JACOB MORGAN/METRO

determining whether cancer
is more prevalent in certain
populations.
The program’s first year
will be focused mainly on

gathering data and mapping
the journey of aboriginal cancer patients.
“We’d like to eventually
grow this program to the rest

of the province,” Alvi said.
“This is a huge opportunity for us to work together and
look at programs including
other chronic diseases.”

Regina to get $5.5M to battle homelessness
Regina is slated to receive $5.5
million over the next five years
from the federal government
to tackle the city’s homelessness woes under the recently
renewed Homelessness Partnering Strategy.
“We still have a very challenging housing situation,” Coun.
Wade Murray said on Sunday
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As part of the initiative,
Regina’s community advisory
board is tasked with developing
a plan to get more homeless
people out of emergency shelters and into permanent lodgings.
Securing permanent and
stable accommodations for
homeless people is a central pillar of the federal government’s
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Housing First model, which

forms the bedrock of its Homelessness Partnering Strategy.
Ottawa’s rationale is that
once stable housing is provided, addictions and mental
health problems can be addressed.
“We’re simply stabilizing
the individual in an accommodation, so they have some
stability in their lives,” Mayor
Michael Fougere said of the
concept.

However, while acknowledging that the federal contributions to tackling homelessness are important, Fougere
said he’s alarmed by what he
sees as Ottawa’s “abdication”
of its responsibilities on the affordable housing front.
“The federal government is
moving away from that issue
(affordable housing),” the mayor added.
“There’s no strategy at all

for this.”
As part of the renewed
agreement, the City of Regina
must direct at least 40 per cent
of its new federal funds to
Housing First initiatives by the
end of March 2016.
Between 2011 and 2014,
the city received $1.1 million
a year from Ottawa to address
homelessness issues under the
Housing First model.
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Shooting. Answers sought
after livestock killed
A rural Saskatchewan farmer
is hoping to find those responsible for killing his livestock.
Kelly Meyer was celebrating his 55th birthday on Friday when he learned that
three of his animals — two
cows and a pig — had been
shot and killed at his farm
near Carmel, about an hour’s
drive east of Saskatoon.
In an attempt to find the
person who committed what
he calls a “cruel” and “senseless” crime, he and his wife
are offering a $1,000 reward
for information on the incident.
“I just don’t want it to happen again,” Meyer said on Sunday.
“If they shoot the whole
herd, they’ll wipe me out.”

All three of the animals
were shot in the stomach before being left to die. Meyer
said he’s never experienced
anything like this during his
27 years in the area.
“I’m very upset about it,”
he said. “Our animals are like
our pets.”
RCMP in Humboldt are investigating and suspect a fourby-four truck was used in the
crime.
Const. Marc Thibodeau
considers the shootings unusual.
“It’s pretty rare,” Thibodeau said.
“I’ve never had a complaint like this before, so it’s
not something I’ve ever had
to deal with.” Morgan Modjeski/
Metro in saskatoon

Future 40 catchup:
Thomas Sierzycki
CBC’s Future 40 project is entering its second year — this time partnering with Metro
to showcase Saskatchewan’s upcoming young leaders on multiple platforms.
All this week, Metro will be featuring a profile of 2013’s winners.

‘once you get politics
into your blood, it’s
hard to get out’
JACOB
MORGAN

Metro in Saskatoon

Anyone who calls millennials lazy hasn’t met Thomas
Sierzycki.
The CBC Future 40 winner
was elected to council in his
hometown of La Ronge, Sask.,
at 18 years old. Three years
later, at 21, he became Canada’s youngest mayor.
“I really had to strive to
make sure I was professional,”
Sierzycki told Metro. “You can
be young as long as you’re ambitious.”

Now 25, he has already
demonstrated commitment to
his northern community.
On council, Sierzycki said
he represented local youth and
pushed for the construction of
a skate park. His top priority
as mayor remains making La
Ronge attractive for residents,
visitors and investors.
“There are a lot of good
things happening in La
Ronge,” said Sierzycki. “If we
can promote (those) things …
then we can capitalize on business opportunities.”
Being featured in Future
40, he added, was a chance to

“give La Ronge and the North
more positive exposure.”
However, Sierzycki is realistic about the challenges
people in remote areas face. La
Ronge has a fluctuating population of more than 3,000, he
said, and is located about 250
kilometres north of Prince Albert.
“Addictions and youth suicide are trends in the north,”
he said.
Sierzycki has also overcome immense personal adversity. His father and mother,
who emigrated from Poland,
both have suffered from can-

courtesy Thomas
Sierzycki

Spring temperatures made a
long-awaited return to Regina
this past weekend, but it appears to be too early to begin a
flood watch in the Queen City.
With slightly cooler temperatures anticipated this
week, Mayor Michael Fougere
says the thaw may slow down
across southern Saskatchewan.
“It will be a very slow thaw
in the coming days,” Fougere
said on Sunday.
“We’re (city staff) always
watching … but I would say it
wouldn’t be the most urgent
issue because the (forecast) is
below zero (next week).”
Temperatures are expected
to fall slightly in the coming
days. The Weather Network
has predicted a high of 2 C on
Monday and -1 C on Tuesday,
before the mercury climbs
back to a high of 3 C on Wednesday and Thursday.
The mayor added that Regina residents are not yet in

the clear, despite his cautious
optimism.
“Every spring we look at …
what’s the weather like, how
much snow we have,” Fougere
said of the factors at play.
“Things can change.”
After a surprisingly frigid
start to March, the temperature soared to 1 C on Saturday and rose to a projected 3 C
on Sunday.
The warm conditions could
mark the unofficial end of one
of Regina’s most bitterly cold
winters of the past two decades.
While Reginans suffered
bone-chilling conditions for
most of the winter, the season’s snowfall will likely fail
to match the record-shattering
196 centimetres that reportedly fell last year.
Fougere points out that
despite that deluge, no major
flood damage was reported in
Regina last spring.
Marco Vigliotti/Metro

cer. In 2009, his mother lost
her fight.
“I wanted to dedicate myself to La Ronge because it had
supported me through some
very tough times,” he said.
Moving forward, Sierzycki
plans on finishing his master’s
degree and starting a family.
Eventually, provincial or federal office is a possibility.
“Once you get politics into
your blood, it’s hard to get
out,” he said.
For more information on CBC’s
Future 40 project, head over to
cbc.ca/sask

A truck splashes through a deep puddle on 7th Avenue on Sunday as snow
continued to melt. marco vigliotti/metro

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Very few countries use stolen
documents database: Interpol
Malaysia Airlines.
Interpol has sounded
an alarm on this for
years; it has 40 million
stolen or lost travel
documents on file
Interpol knew about stolen
passports that two passengers used to board an
ill-fated Malaysia Airlines
flight bound for China, but
no country checked the police agency’s vast database
on stolen documents beforehand, it said Sunday. Interpol
said it hopes authorities will
“learn from the tragedy.”
It’s not known whether
stolen passports had anything to do with Saturday’s
disappearance of the Boeing 777 bound from Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing
with 239 people on board.
But such oversights aren’t
new. Last year, passengers
boarded planes more than a
billion times without their

passports being checked
against Interpol’s database
of 40 million stolen or lost
travel documents, said the
international organization
based in Lyon, France.
Interpol has sounded the
alarm on the issue for years,
and just last month it bemoaned that “only a handful of countries” regularly
use its stolen or lost travel
documents database of records from 167 countries. For
example, the database was
searched more than 800 million times last year — but
one in eight searches was
conducted by United Arab
Emirates alone.
On Sunday, Interpol Secretary General Ronald Noble
said that his organization
has long asked why countries
would “wait for a tragedy to
put prudent security measures in place at borders and
boarding gates.” The thefts of
the two passports used were
entered into Interpol’s database after they were stolen in
Thailand.
the associated press

Mystery of flight MH370

Jet door may
have been
located
Vietnamese authorities
searching waters for
the missing Boeing
777 jetliner spotted an
object Sunday that they
suspected was one of the
plane’s doors, as international intelligence
agencies joined the
investigation into two
passengers who boarded
the aircraft with stolen
passports.
More than a day after
the Malaysia Airlines
flight went missing, no
debris had been found,
and the final minutes before it disappeared were
a mystery. The jetliner
lost contact between
Malaysia and Vietnam.
Relative of passengers on the missing Malaysia Airlines jet with 239 people on board. Andy Wong/the associated press

the associated press

Bomb kills Canadian photojournalist in Syria: Family

Ali Mustafa fans out masks to filter pollution and tear gas. He died Sunday.
Twitter: @zack_helwa

United Arab Emirates

Gulf states label
the Brotherhood a
terrorist group
The United Arab Emirates
has thrown its support
behind neighbouring Saudi
Arabia’s decision to label
the Muslim Brotherhood a
terrorist organization, increasing Gulf Arab pressure

A Canadian freelance photographer was killed in the
northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Sunday, his sister and
activists said, the latest journalist to be killed covering a
brutal war that has become
the deadliest place in the
world for them to operate.
Ali Mustafa died along
with seven others when government aircraft dropped
crude bombs and one exploded where he was standing with firefighters in the
rebel-held Hadariyeh area
of Aleppo city, said an activist who identifies himself as

Abu al-Hassan Marea.
Mustafa’s sister, Justina
Rosa Botelho confirmed her
29-year-old brother’s death
after activists sent her a
photograph of his corpse.
Mustafa was born in Toronto, the son of Pakistani and
Portuguese immigrant parents.
The family was not aware
that he was in Syria. They
were last in contact a week
ago, when Mustafa told her
that he was in Turkey, she
said.
“He wanted to tell mom
he was OK,” she said. “He

Iceland’s prime minister

on the Islamist group.
Saudi Arabia listed the
86-year-old Brotherhood
along with several other
groups, including al-Qaida
affiliates, as terrorist
organizations on Friday.
Those who join or support the groups could face
five to 30 years in prison.
Egypt labelled it a terrorist
organization in December.
the associated press

Russia’s action in
Ukraine a problem
for Arctic nations
Russia’s actions in Ukraine
could cause problems for
international co-operation
in the Arctic, says Iceland’s
prime minister.
Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson said Russia’s strong-arm

No danger pay

“He just wanted the
world to know about
human rights and all the
horrible things going on
down there.”
Justina Rosa Botelho, Ali Mustafa’s sister.
Syria is said to be the most dangerous
conflict in the world for journalists.

never told me he was in Syria. I guess he was trying to
hide that.”
Botelho said she and Mus-

tafa shared the same mother.
Since the Syrian uprising
began in March 2011, more
than 63 journalists have
been killed by both forces
loyal to President Bashar
Assad and rebels seeking his
overthrow, according to the
Committee to Protect Journalists.
The most vulnerable
journalists are freelancers
who do not have companies helping them. In a July
2013 interview, Mustafa said
he first travelled to Syria in
March 2013.
the associated press

Referendum

tactics in its former satellite
could make it harder for
the eight nations on the
Arctic Council to reach
agreements at a time when
the region faces a series of
critical issues.
“This has a ripple effect,
even though the actual
events are far from the
Arctic,” said Gunnlaugsson,
in Edmonton on a trade
mission. the canadian press

Separatist vote
in Crimea set for
March 16
Russian President Vladimir
Putin on Sunday defended
the separatist drive in the
disputed Crimean Peninsula as keeping with international law, but Ukraine’s
prime minister vowed

not to relinquish “a single
centimetre” of his country’s
territory.
Over the weekend, the
Kremlin beefed up its military presence in Crimea, a
part of Ukraine since 1954,
and pro-Russia forces keep
pushing for a vote in favour
of reunification with Moscow in a referendum the
local parliament has scheduled. the associated press

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Ottawa couple suing feds for
$6.5 million worth of weed
Medical marijuana.
With prices expected
to skyrocket under new
rules, a man and his
wife want government
to cover them for 40year supply of pot
Trevor
greenway
Metro in Ottawa

An Ottawa couple who uses
medical marijuana are suing
the federal government for a
combined $6.5 million — a projected figure of what it will cost
them to stay medicated for the
next 40 years when Health Canada changes rules to its Medical
Marijuana Access Regulation.
Russell Barth consumes
about 16 grams of pot every
day to manage pain related to
his fibromyalgia symptoms, as

well as post-traumatic stress.
Barth and his wife, Christine
Lowe, who suffers from epilepsy, say they have a designated grower, an arrangement
that allows them to stay medicated for far less than it will
cost them under the new rules.
While he did not disclose
how much he spends a year, he
said a friend of his grew a year’s
worth of marijuana in a single
summer at a cost of $500.
When Health Canada changes come into effect at the end
of the month, Barth and his
wife won’t be able to afford the
up to $15 a gram they will be
forced to pay from commercial
growers. The changes will also
force Barth to destroy all the
pot he already has — about
78 plants and 3.5 kilograms of
dried marijuana that he says is
worth more than $130,000.
His statement of claim gives
the Crown three options: Remove cannabis from the Controlled Drugs and Substance

Separatist dreams. Former
head of Quebecor to run for
PQ in provincial election
Media baron Pierre Karl
Peladeau shook up the Quebec election campaign on
Sunday, announcing he’s
decided to run for the Parti
Québécois.
Flanked by PQ Leader
Pauline Marois, Peladeau
told a news conference he’s
worked to build up media
giant Quebecor over the past
25 years and now wants to
devote himself to public service.
He said his dream is to
help Quebec become a country.
“Quebec has all the

means to succeed. We have
financial resources, we
have human resources, we
have natural resources,”
Peladeau said in Saint-Jérôme, north of Montreal,
where he will run for a seat
in the April 7 election.
“We’ve got everything
(we need) for a country to be
alive and kicking.”
Peladeau rejected suggestions his entry into politics
could represent a conflict of
interest, given his powerful
presence in the province’s
media landscape.
the canadian press

Pierre Karl Peladeau at a press conference in Saint-Jérôme, Que., on Sunday.
Graham Hughes/the canadian press

Act (CDSA) for everybody, grant
him and his wife an exemption
from the CDSA or pay them
the money so they can afford
to medicate themselves in the
future. Ideally, Barth wants marijuana to be legal for everyone.
He sees a market of cheap or
free pot under those circumstances.
“Pot should be sold in supermarkets,” he said. “Pot should
be as legal as coffee and chocolate, not tobacco and alcohol.”
The new rules, which come
into effect March 31, will no
longer allow medical marijuana patients to grow their
own pot or use designated
growers.
Instead, patients will have
to buy from licensed large-scale
producers at a much higher
cost, and that doesn’t sit well
with Barth.
“It’s absolutely terrifying,”
he told Metro Sunday.
“Every day I feel like I am
wrestling with a robot.”
Lev Tahor

Nine members
of Jewish sect
have returned to
Canada: Police
Police say nine members
of a fringe Jewish sect
who left the country
amid child custody
proceedings only to be
stopped in Trinidad and
Tobago have now been
returned to Canada.
Peel police Sgt. Dave
Housdon says the Lev
Tahor members landed
at Toronto’s Pearson
International Airport
Saturday night, and the
six children were placed
in the care of the Children’s Aid Society.
The three adults were
being processed by the
Canada Border Services
Agency, he added.
A spokeswoman for
the agency said CBSA
“continues to work
closely with local law
enforcement agencies on
this case,” but wouldn’t
say whether the three
had been released.
About 200 members
of the sect — 114 of them
children — settled in Chatham, Ont., last year after
uprooting from Ste-Agathedes-Monts, Que.
the canadian press

Russell Barth and his wife, Christine Lowe, are suing the federal government for $6.5 million so they can afford to use
pot as medicine when Health Canada changes rules to its Medical Marijuana Access Regulations. contributed

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Interception. Israel says
ship had 40 rockets, Iran
behind smuggling plot
Israel’s military said Sunday
that a cargo ship it intercepted
in the Red Sea last week carried
40 rockets with a range of up to
160 kilometres.
Israel has alleged the shipment was orchestrated by Iran
and was intended for Islamic
militants in Gaza, a claim denied by Iran and the rockets’
purported recipients.
An Egyptian security official
said Sunday the rockets also
might have been intended for
militants in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, which borders Gaza. The
official spoke on condition of
anonymity because he was not
allowed to brief reporters.
Neither Israel nor Egypt
provided evidence for their
claims. Questions remain, including how the rockets would
have been smuggled into Gaza,
largely cut off from the world
by a border blockade.

An Israeli soldier covers boxes
from a shipment that the military
intercepted last week.
Ariel Schalit/The Associated PRess

Israel’s government has
used the interception to bolster claims that Iran remains
dangerous and that the world
powers should break off negotiations with Tehran over the
country’s nuclear program.
THe Associated PRess

New York. Protest against
Israel’s proposed draft for
ultra-Orthodox Jews
Thousands of ultra-Orthodox
Jews filled the streets in lower
Manhattan on Sunday to protest Israel’s proposal to draft
strictly religious citizens into
its army.
The gathering took up a
stretch of 10 blocks, with darkclothed demonstrators standing behind police barricades
amid tight security. Organizers kept to tradition, with men
and women in separate groups
as they are at religious events.
Sunday’s prayer event
brought together a community of New York’s most Orthodox Jews, based in Brooklyn
Iraq

Series of attacks
kill more than 40
A suicide car bomber set off
his explosive-laden vehicle at
a security checkpoint Sunday
in southern Iraq, the deadliest of a series of attacks that
killed 42 people, officials said.
The violence, which comes a
few weeks before scheduled
elections, is the latest by
insurgents bent on destabilizing the country.
The blast struck the
entrance of the city of Hillah
during morning rush hour
as dozens of cars waited to
be searched. The explosion
killed 21 civilians, including

and in the town of Kiryas Joel
in Orange County, north of the
city.
A week ago, hundreds of
thousands of ultra-Orthodox
Jews rallied in the streets of
Jerusalem, blocking roads
and paralyzing the city in a
massive show of force against
plans to require them to serve
in the Israeli military.
The widespread opposition
to the draft poses a challenge
to the country, which is grappling with a cultural war over
the place of the ultra-Orthodox in Israeli society.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

‘It’s a miracle.’ Newborn
starts breathing again
after being declared
legally dead

Quoted

“(The nurse) couldn’t talk. She was speechless, and
another nurse came over and said, ‘Your baby’s
breathing.’ ”
Robin Cyr on being told her newborn baby girl was alive after having been declared dead.

a woman and a 12-year-old,
and 15 security personnel,
two police officers said. It
wounded at least 115, they
said.
The bombing set dozens
of cars ablaze, killing those
trapped inside. Debris littered
the ground, covered by foam
sprayed by firefighters trying
to extinguish the fire.
Police say the victims’
burns suggested the bomber
packed his car with liquid
fuel, probably gasoline.
Elsewhere Sunday, militants launched attacks just
outside the capital against security forces and employees
of the state-run oil company,
killing six people, police said.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

RUTH
DAVENPORT
Metro in Halifax

Robin Cyr’s fourth child
already packed a lifetime’s
worth of emotional turmoil
into her first 28 minutes in
the world.
Cyr, 34, was told her
baby girl died just after being born in the IWK Health
Centre in Halifax around 3
a.m. Saturday.
But shortly after getting
the devastating news, a
stuttering, breathless nurse
rushed back into the room
to say the baby had started
breathing again.
“My aunt was there and
it’s a blessing because her
prayers are very deep and

strong,” said Cyr on Sunday, speaking in a whisper
through tears at the hospital. “When she started praying, my baby came back.”
The big baby girl, who
weighed nine pounds 14
ounces, got wedged in the
birth canal during the delivery. Once she was born,
Cyr lay on the bed waiting
for 25 minutes for any signs
of life.
“My aunt looked at me
and said, ‘Your baby girl’s
gone,’” she said, adding the
baby’s body was taken out
of the room after being declared dead. “Another nurse
came over, two minutes
later ... she couldn’t talk.
She was speechless, and an-

other nurse came over and
said, ‘Your baby’s breathing.’”
A flummoxed surgeon
told Cyr’s family that he
had no explanation for the
seemingly impossible recovery.
“He said it’s a miracle,”
said Cyr. “He said, ‘I’m very
sorry I gave up on your baby
when I did, because I turned
around and she’s breathing
on her own.’”
The chubby little girl
with an impressive shock
of dark hair is now breathing on her own in the neonatal intensive-care unit.
She could pass for any other
healthy newborn baby.
Cyr’s family and friends

say they’re still processing
the miracle that trumped
the miracle of birth.
“The way the story progresses, by the time you get
halfway through, you don’t
want to hear the rest, you’re
like, I’m done. This is not
going to end well,” said godfather Nevel Carvery. “Then
to have it end the way it
ended, it’s a roller coaster.”
Cyr had a name picked
out for the baby, but said
that will likely have to
change.
“Everybody just keeps
saying ‘miracle, miracle,’”
she said.
A review is underway to
determine what, if any explanation, there may be for
the baby’s apparent resurrection — but Cyr says she
knows the answer.
“All I can say is, hand
of God,” said Cyr. “That’s
what everyone’s saying,
she’s here for a reason. God
brought her back for a reason.”

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Sexism. WestJet writes its
own love note to women

Bank of Mom and Dad
must bone up on RESPs
how
to roll

Alison Griffiths
metronews.ca

WestJet wrote their own note supporting female pilots. YOUTUBE.COM

There’s plenty of room for
women in the cockpit, the airtraffic control centre, even on
the airport tarmac.
That’s the message behind a
new video produced by Calgarybased WestJet that aims to fuel
positive discussion in the wake
of a sexist note written by a
passenger targeting one of the
airline’s experienced female
pilots.
While aboard a Calgary to
Victoria flight, “David” wrote
that the cockpit of an airplane
is “no place for a woman,” and
asked the airline to inform him
next time a female pilot was at
the helm so he could book another flight.
But the pilot who claimed

she was targeted by the note,
17-year aviation veteran Carey
Steacy, fired back on Facebook.
WestJet was quick to condemn the passenger’s remarks
and later created a video showcasing women in various roles
of the aviation world — Steacy
herself even makes a cameo.
WestJet spokesperson Robert Palmer said the video aims
to turn the discussion away
from the sexist note to “something more positive.”
“The message is that not
only do women belong, we
need more of them in aviation
and here are some of the roles
women are currently performing.”
JEREMY NOLAIS/METRO IN CALGARY

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Sending your kid to lectures like this isn’t cheap. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE

When you Drink the Moo
Remember the Sarcan Blue

Rachel Canning, an 18-yearold from New Jersey, has just
lost the first round in a lawsuit
against her parents over financial and educational support
after they booted her from the
family home, citing her bad behaviour.
But imagine if the disgruntled teen had sued them because poor investing decisions
robbed her of the opportunity
to attend university.
It seems ridiculous. On the
other hand ...
An RESP (registered education savings plan) isn’t a child’s
right. But once parents start
one it behooves them to pay
attention. Many kids contribute
to their own RESPs with summer or part-time earnings, giving them an even bigger stake
in the outcome.
An annual deposit of $2,500

will attract the maximum Canada Education Savings Grant of
$500 yearly. Even if the money
earns no interest, it will amount
to $57,000 after 18 years.
A modest, annually compounded return of three per
cent would boost the bottom
line to over $76,000. That’s a
nice chunk of change.
Now suppose parents buy
some really stinky investments
and the education fund is eviscerated. Should they be held
responsible?
Or what if parents put all
the money into the stock market without the safety of cash
or bonds? If it’s early 2008,
their offspring stand to lose 40
to 50 per cent of their education money in the September
crash.
It would be interesting to
see what a court would say if
a child were to sue parents for
financial neglect in either situation.
It might never happen, but
the point is, you can’t just contribute to an RESP and ignore it.

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IT’S AS IF TIME STANDS STILL
our ballots.
In case you haven’t noticed — and there is
The change of time is as old as time itevery chance of that — much of the planet
self. Many a moon ago, arguments for and
moved its clocks an hour ahead this past
against it were put forward, but the fact reweekend. Saskatchewan is among few exmains that in Saskatchewan, we just stay
ceptions.
in tempo.
Daylight saving time isn’t used everyTime and time again, we have debated
where in the world. Parts of British Columwhether Saskatchewan should change its
bia don’t use it, for example. Nor do Ariclocks to get into synch with the other
zona and Hawaii. It is unnecessary at or
provinces. Premier Brad Wall had promnear the equator, because there the length
ised to hold a referendum, but then said
of each day remains nearly the same. The
that would be a waste of money and time
vast majority of countries in Africa and
URBAN COMPASS
because surveys showed that no one here
Asia don’t use daylight saving time, either.
really wants to change pace.
The only real impact of not changing
Christina
Take time out to digest these tidbits:
our clocks is seen in our favourite TV
Cherneskey
Springing forward by an hour has been asshows beginning an hour earlier. Or we
regina@metronews.ca
sociated with a 10 per cent increase in the
might inadvertently call our non-provinrisk of heart attack; studies have found a
cial friends too early or too late. And there
is an off-chance of a polling station closing and robbing us significant impact on the number of pedestrians killed by
simple, non-clock-worthy folks of an hour in which to cast vehicles after a time switch in the fall; and those who suf-

ZOOM

Injured in Afghanistan, scoring in Russia

fer from sleep disorders have a much harder time when
clocks are shifted.
Let’s face it. Daylight saving has caused controversy
since it began. Some pundits have even dubbed it “daylight slaving time.” Historically, retail, sports and tourism interests prefer daylight saving, while agricultural
and evening entertainment interests oppose it.
But it’s the argument itself that creates the most
waves. Quite honestly, who really wants to change clocks
twice a year? What time do you agree upon to meet with a
friend who lives on the other side of the border in Lloydminster?
If you can set your clock to simple routine, you’re in
luck here in Saskatchewan. We’re not living on borrowed
time, nor have we lost that precious hour of sleep. Our
clocks remain constant, and there’s no worry about being
an hour late for work.
And we won’t need to have this conversation again
until Sunday, Nov. 2 at 2 a.m. Or would that be 1 a.m.?
Christina Cherneskey is news director at 620 CKRM in Regina.

WE ACT:

Canada does good
Poetry behind bars

Justin Setterfield/Getty Images

Canadian Forces
veteran scores

Reminded of fateful
day every morning

Canada’s Dominic Larocque
celebrates scoring during an ice
sledge hockey game between
Canada and Norway on Sunday
at the Paralympic Games in
Sochi, Russia. Larocque was an
accomplished athlete growing
up — even playing junior-A
hockey for a time — before
joining the Canadian military’s
famed Van Doo regiment in
2005. THE CANADIAN PRESS

Larocque has no memory of the
moment that changed his life
forever.
While serving with the
Canadian Forces in
Afghanistan, an armoured
vehicle carrying the young
corporal drove over an
improvised explosive device.
The devastating blast on Nov.
27, 2007, shattered Larocque’s
left leg and required an

Sledge hockey

amputation above the knee.
Although he has no
recollection of that fateful day,
he’s still reminded of it each
morning.
“Every time when I wake up
I think about that,” said
Larocque, now 26. “I have no
choice.” His main focus upon
returning from Afghanistan
was getting back in shape, but
he saw an even brighter future
after watching Canada’s sledge
hockey team in action.
THE CANADIAN PRESS

4-0

A big body that likes to do the dirty
work, Larocque has already shown
some scoring touch at these Games,
recording two goals in Canada’s 10-1
victory over Sweden in Saturday’s
opener.
Larocque was at it again on Sunday,
scoring the game’s first goal in Canada’s 4-0 victory over Norway.
Canada has an off-day on Monday
before taking on the Czech Republic
on Tuesday.

Canadians across the nation
are up to a whole lot of good.
Here’s one we’d like you to
meet.
Who: Nancy Van Styvendale,
community-builder and educator.
What: Inspired Minds, an
all-nations creative writing
program at the Saskatoon Correctional Centre.
Why: “To build bridges and
connect people across differences.”
Poetry can’t break bars,
but Dr. Nancy Van Styvendale,
an assistant professor at the
University of Saskatchewan,
argues that it does break down
barriers. In 2011, with the support of Diann Block, the First
Nations and Métis co-ordinator
at the Saskatoon Correctional
Centre, Van Styvendale volunteered to co-ordinate and teach
creative writing and literature
classes to small groups of
inmates. These eight-week,
volunteer-driven courses
provide participants with a certificate of completion from the
University of Saskatchewan.
What has been the most
rewarding part of your involvement?
Within the larger context of
the jail, there’s the need to
protect yourself and not let
people in. What I love about

contributed

the program is that it creates a
safe space where the men feel
relatively confident sharing
very personal things about
their lives and struggles. And
the other members of the class
respect that and encourage
their fellow classmates.
How has the program affected the participants personally? Some of the men have
experienced racism and were
disenfranchised at school.
So to provide an educational
space that is positive, that
makes people feel good about
learning is super important. A
lot of the men are interested
in the certificate of completion, because they can use it
when they are going on a job
interview. It’s a big deal for
someone who doesn’t have
educational credentials.
Craig and Marc Kielburger

We want to hear from you:
Send us your comments: reginaletters@metronews.ca

Juicy J’s hustle continues
Never Sober. Busy
rapper kicking it on
tour, working on next
album as collaborations
climb Billboard chart
EMILY
LAURENCE

Metro World News

If there’s anyone who deserves
to do a little partying, it’s Juicy
J. His collaboration with Katy
Perry, Dark Horse, is everywhere, including the top of the
Billboard Hot 100 chart, and
his new single, Talkin’ Bout,
with Chris Brown and Wiz
Khalifa, is quickly creeping up
too. We talk with the rapper
about getting tipsy (count the
number of times he says Ciroc)
on his Never Sober tour.
Right now, you’re in the
studio working on your next
album, The Hustle Continues.
What can people expect?
It’s about going from the
’hood to where I am now.
I’ve been in the music game
for over 20 years and won an
Academy Award (in 2006 for
It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp
from Hustle & Flow). I still
live a party and kicking-it life.
I’m having a lot of fun right
now, but I’m still working
too.
Dark Horse is obviously killing it right now. What was
it like working with Katy
Perry?
Katy Perry is a genius. She
works hard just like me. Katy
is in the studio every day and
working with her was great.
There were no problems at
all.
How did that collaboration
compare with working with
Miley Cyrus on 23?
Both of them work really

Juicy J: “I hustled all the way to the top and I’m partying my ass off right now. But I work hard too.” MUSASHI ONO

hard. Miley’s a genius too. She
has a great voice. They’re both
very professional women.

and then have somebody drop
you off. Or you can take Uber.
I tried it and it’s great.

After 23 came out, there
were all these rumours that
Miley was pregnant with
your baby.
That was just funny. People
are always going to spread
rumours online that aren’t
true. Miley’s like my little
sister, man!

If your life was a video
game, what would it be like?
It would definitely be a hustle.
You’d have to hustle your way
to the top and then you party
your ass off. That’s what I did.
I hustled all the way to the
top and I’m partying my ass
off right now. But I work hard
too. We might be drinking
some Ciroc on the tour bus,
but I have a studio set up in
there. I’m actually about to go
make some beats right now.

This is the Never Sober tour.
What’s your signature drink?
Right now, we have lots of
Ciroc Vodka on the bus and
some Hennessy and a couple
bottles of champagne. If
someone’s coming to a Juicy
J show, they would definitely
drink some Ciroc. But don’t
drive. Let somebody drop
you off or catch a limousine
or something. You can drink
some Ciroc or down some gin

When you Drink the Moo
Remember the Sarcan Blue

You collaborated with Chris
Brown and Wiz Khalifa for
your new single, Talkin’
Bout. What are they like to
hang out with?
We’re super cool. They’re
great guys. When we hang
out, we just like kicking it,

popping bottles and enjoying
life.
What would people be surprised to learn about you?
I manage myself. I’m very
hands-on and am in all the
meetings, on all the emails
and do my own taxes. I have
people who work for me, but
I’m the head guy in charge
and I run the show. I’ve been
doing it my whole life.
When I was 13 years old,
my mama was a librarian and
I told her to check me out all
the music books. I read 10 or
15 books because I wanted to
know everything about the
music business. A lot of artists
just want to make music, get
groupies and spend all the
money, but that isn’t what
you’re supposed to do. It’s
called the music business and
it’s a business at the end of
the day.

SCENE

The Nova Scotia-shot
comedy series Call Me Fitz,
about a morally bankrupt
used-car salesman, was
among the big winners at
Sunday night’s Canadian
Screen Awards, taking
home three awards during
the TV broadcast.
Show star Jason Priestley won for best actor in
a comedy series, while
co-star Tracy Dawson won
for best actress. The series
also took home honours
for best comedy series.
Space’s sci-fi series
Orphan Black received two
wins, with show star Tatiana Maslany winning best
actress in a dramatic role.
Last year Maslany, a Regina
native, was also nominated
for a Golden Globe for her
work on the series. Orphan
Black also won for best
dramatic series.
Among other TV winners were Hugh Dillon
for best dramatic actor in
Flashpoint, and Rick Roberts and Sook-Yin Lee for
their performances as Jack
Layton and Olivia Chow in
the miniseries Jack.
Awards were also handed out for films, with Denis
Villeneuve’s Enemy wining
five honours. Villeneuve
was awarded best director,
while Sarah Gadon won a
supporting actress honour
for her role. Best motion
picture went to the Frenchlanguage film Gabrielle
with star Gabrielle MarionRivard winning the best
actress award.

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METRO DISH
OUR TAKE ON THE WORLD OF CELEBRITIES
Pop goes the week

Selena Gomez

Selena continues to Belieb
Justin is the one for her
It looks like Selena Gomez
can’t quite quit Justin Bieber
no matter how much trouble
he encounters. The former
Disney star is fuelling speculation that she and Bieber are
back together after being spotted by fans having breakfast
together in McAllen, Texas,
late Friday morning, according

Gwyneth Paltrow ALL PHOTOS GETTY IMAGES

‘Princess’ Paltrow’s past
comes back to haunt her
Poor Gwyneth Paltrow. As if
it weren’t enough to have her
opinions and actions as an
adult criticized, now former
middle school classmates are
saying that she’s always been
difficult. “Gwyneth always
seemed like she thought she
was better than the rest of
us,” a former classmate tells
Radar Online. “She was in a
play where she had the princess role and she told another
girl in school that ‘of course’
she was playing that role because she was a princess and

the other girl was not and
that’s why she didn’t get the
role. No one was surprised.
She was so smug, even back
then.” And that old reputation is apparently still haunting her now that she and her
family live in L.A. again: “A
group of women that didn’t
get along with Gwyneth back
in the day want nothing to
do with her now,” the source
explains. “They still live in
L.A. and have no interest in
hanging out with her or being friends at all.”

Neeson’s Bond with late
wife worth more than
playing the man himself
Liam Neeson’s career
could’ve gone very differently if it weren’t for late
wife Natasha Richardson,
the Taken star reveals.
Neeson tells the Hull Daily
Mail that he was offered the
role of James Bond early in
his career, but then-fiancée
Richardson wasn’t having it.
“I was heavily courted, let’s
put it that way, and I’m sure

some other actors were too,”
Neeson says. “It was about
18 or 19 years ago and my
wife-to-be said, ‘If you play
James Bond we’re not getting
married.’ And I had to take
that on board, because I did
want to marry her.” The 007
franchise went with Pierce
Brosnan instead, and Neeson
and Richardson tied the knot
in 1994.

Olympic ice dancing gold
medal winners Meryl
Davis and Charlie White
will be competing on
Dancing with the Stars.
That’s really too bad for
you, Canadian contestant
Sean Avery.
This week in wooing:
1) Robin Thicke is waging
a public campaign to win
back wife Paula Patton by
singing songs about her. 2)
Justin Bieber is Instagramming pictures of ex Selena
Gomez with the caption
“most elegant princess in
the world.” 3) John Travolta is still trying to get
Adele Dazeem to call him.
A tattoo artist who
visited Charlie Sheen’s
hotel room over Christmas says that a Vicodin-

popping Charlie punched
a hole in the wall, signed
his name under the hole
and then took off his
shorts and set them on
fire before offering the
visitor $10,000 US for
a kiss. “See,” says Justin
Bieber to his team, “we
still have a really long way
to go until we are where
we want to be.”
Katie Holmes has closed
her five-year-old fashion
line. There was no reason
for her to pretend she
has to leave the house to
make clothes now that
she can come and go as
she wants.
Bobby Brown says he
didn’t know his daughter Bobbi Kristina got
married. In his defence,
he also doesn’t know
where he lives, what his
favourite food is or if he
still has a prerogative.
After Jennifer Lawrence
trips over a traffic cone
on the red carpet at the
Oscars, online commenters accuse her of
planning the fall in
order to reinforce her
clumsy-cute persona. But
then they got distracted
by the notion that Scarlett
Johansson got pregnant
on purpose to punish
Marvel for not paying her
enough. Actually, that one
has a ring of truth to it.

to Valley Central. Gomez was
in the area for a performance
the following night at BorderFest, and Bieber apparently
flew in to join her after giving
a deposition in Miami in a lawsuit brought against him by a
photographer. For the record,
Gomez ate chilaquiles while
Bieber had huevos rancheros.

Robin Thicke

Is Robin missing his wife
or enjoying single life?
It looks like all of Robin
Thicke’s yearnings for a
reconciliation with estranged
wife Paula Patton — which
he’s made a regular part of his
concerts on his current tour
— might just be for show.
The Blurred Lines singer has

seemed contrite and lovesick
on-stage, but off-stage he’s reportedly been having a great
time and visiting strip clubs,
according to Radar Online.
And at his most recent tour
stop he was spotted without
his wedding ring.

Twitter
@pattonoswalt
•••••
So, starting at 2am we set our calendars to Christmas
except it’s “summertime Halloween” Christmas with
still some snow?

One of the biggest surprises
to come out of Til Debt Do Us
Part was the number of people
who put themselves on The
Magic Jars as a way of managing their money. Determined
to do something differently,
they saw the jars as a way of
taking control of their money.
Some people, however, seem
to have difficulty figuring
out where the money for the
jars comes from. It’s as if they
think this is extra money, not
money they would have been
spending all along.
The money that goes into
the jars is the money that you
would have been spending on
things like gas, food, clothes,
entertainment and medical
costs — all your variable expenses. It’s not extra money.
While the jars make the
whole money management
thing very concrete, the place
to start changing your money
management is not with
the jars. It’s with a balanced
budget. You can’t actually
make the jars work for you if
you don’t start by making a
budget that balances.
Head of over to my website
at gailvazoxlade.com and find

Money jars provide a clear view of how to live within your means. ISTOCK

the Interactive Budget and
the instructions, Gail’s Guide
to Building a Budget. Follow
the instructions and make
a budget that balances. You
can’t have a negative number
at the bottom. The budget has
to balance.
If you can’t make it balance, either your expenses
are too high or your income
is too low. Start by cutting out
everything that isn’t essential to keeping body and soul
together.
Cable, cell phone and telephone bills are one place to
look. Turn down your thermostat and put on a sweater to
save on heating costs. Get
rid of a car you simply can’t
afford to keep. If that’s not

enough, then you’re going to
have to find a way to make
more money.
OK, now we come to the
jars. The Interactive Budget
Worksheet will tell you how
much should be going into
each of the jars. This money
is your variable spending. Assuming you’ve balanced your
budget, you now know how
much to pull from your bank
account each week for the
jars. If you’re deeply in debt
and must commit a significant portion of your income
to debt repayment, some jars,
like “clothing and gifts” may
remain empty until you’re
back in the black.
All the rest of your money
stays in your bank account to

be used to pay your bills. Your
mortgage or rent is a fixed
expense. Ditto your car payment, insurance, childcare.
Two more things: First,
if you can’t figure out how
much you should be putting
toward debt repayment, use
the Own Up to Your Debt
Worksheet on the website as
a quick way to determine how
much should be going toward
your debt repayment. If your
hole is deep, you may have to
allocate 30, 35 or 40 per cent
of your income to debt repayment; whatever it takes to
get you out of the red within
three years or less. If it looks
like it’s going to take longer,
or your debt repayments are
throwing your budget off kil-

LIFE

GAIL
VAZ-OXLADE

ter, you only option will be to
make more money.
Second, you can’t sacrifice
savings in the name of paying your debt off faster. Sorry,
that’s cheating. You have to
set aside a little sumthin’ sumthin’ each month for emergency and retirement savings
so that you’re working with a
balanced plan.
I know there are those who
believe you should pay off all
your debt before you start to
save. I don’t agree. If you don’t
start the habit of long-term
savings today, you may not
ever start. Ever heard of inertia? That’s the thing that keeps
a body that’s at rest, at rest
until something acts upon it.
It also keeps a body in motion,
in motion. If you aren’t saving
today, you’re a body at rest.
Lots of people all over the
world are using the jars. I’m
really surprised that such a
simple and really old idea has
caught on in such a big way.
Perhaps it’s because the jars
really work. I haven’t given
them to a single family that
hasn’t had money left in the
jars at the end of my time
with them, despite my having dramatically cut their
budgets.
Determination is a big
part of success. If you’re at all
wishy-washy about what it’ll
take to get you out of debt and
live within your means, if you
just can’t work up the guts to
do things differently, it won’t
be the jars that failed.
WANT TO BE SMARTER ABOUT YOUR
MONEY? GO TO MYMONEYMYCHOICES.COM
AND FOLLOW THE ROADMAP TO SUCCESS.

METRO CUSTOM PUBLISHING

Tax Talk

U.S. Citizens Need To File With The IRS And Employment
Expenses Are Probably Not A Tax Break
I use my phone for work? Can I claim a portion
of my bills?

Need
Advice?

Caroline Battista

Tax Analyst at H&R Block

Probably not. It usually has to be part of your
employment contract before you can claim it.
And your employer has to give you a signed
T2200 Form in order to claim employment
expenses like cell phones. But if you have a
T4, you should be able to claim the Canada Employment
Amount, which is about $168 in tax savings. This credit
was meant to help with some of the costs of having a job,
like parking, dry cleaning and cell phones.

I was born in the U.S. but my parents moved
to Canada when I was 5. Do I have to file a
U.S. return?
It depends on your income but the answer is
probably yes. Unless you formally renounce your
U.S. citizenship, the IRS expects U.S. citizens to file
a tax return if you earn over a certain amount.
Don’t worry, the U.S. Canada Tax Treaty means
you won’t pay double the tax, but you need to file a return.
And if you have assets of more than $10,000 at any point
during the year, you need to file a Financial Bank Account
Report with the Treasury Department by June 30 or
face penalties.

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No, you don’t have an app for that
Don’t quit your day
job. Developer warns
that odds of creating
the next Flappy Bird are
likely no better than
winning the lottery
Convinced you’ve got a brilliant app idea that would surely make you rich if you could
just learn to code?
Think again before quitting your day job, warns Matt
Coombe, co-founder of the Toronto-based app development
company Get Set Games.
While he in no way discourages aspiring app makers from
getting into coding, he warns
it’s getting harder and harder to get noticed in Apple’s
crowded App Store and the
Google Play marketplace for
Android apps.
“I think the gold rush is
over,” Coombe says during an
interview at the company’s
downtown loft-style office
space, which features trendy
reclaimed wood furniture and
the requisite well-stocked staff
kitchen.
“In the early days, it was
basically, if you could make a
decent app and get it out on
the App Store, you had a very
good chance for success. You
wouldn’t necessarily become a
millionaire overnight but you
could make a decent salary for
yourself.
“I think those days are
over because there’s so much

You may have the code down to a science, but do you have the skills to put together a completely unique product?

quality out there. There’s absolutely an opportunity there.
It’s still available and people
are still doing really great stuff
and having a lot of success, but
it’s a lot harder.”
Get Set Games’ Mega Jump
2, for example, is a so-called
freemium game, which means
it’s free to download but users
can opt to pay for some addons that make playing a little
easier.
The original Mega Jump
wasn’t free when it first
launched but Coombe says the
development team eventually

decided that adopting the freemium strategy was the best
way to go.
Too many users had decided that even 99 cents was too

much to pay for an app. Now
Coombe hopes that maybe
five per cent of the users who
download his games will opt to
pay for in-game purchases. For

Not-so-lengthy life spans

Matt Coombe knows firsthand that even if an app can stand
out from the crowd and become a hit, maintaining a top chart
position is extremely difficult.
• Get Set Games first topped the charts in 2010 with its game
Mega Jump and recently released a sequel, which also went
to No. 1.
•

Featured status by Apple helped push Mega Jump 2 to the
top of the overall iPad app charts in both Canada and the
U.S. within days of its release. It took overall top spot in 32
countries and in the arcade game category it ranked No. 1 in
100 countries.

•

But within a couple of days the descent on the charts began
and by week’s end, it had dropped dozens of positions in
Canada and the U.S.

Don’t despair, just be aware

There’s absolutely an opportunity there. It’s still
available and people are still doing really great stuff
and having a lot of success, but it’s a lot harder.”

istock

a game that’s massively popular, the revenue from those
five out of every 100 users can
add up.
“There are a couple of really great things about making
free apps. One is you absolutely get to reach out to the most
people possible with zero barrier to entry. Everyone is willing to give your game a try,”
Coombe says.
“That means your download numbers and people who
get to know about your game
and your brand are several orders of magnitude larger than
a paid app. The second thing
is, when you have a large user
base and a lot of people playing
your games, then you get to
introduce those same people
to your next games and your
next games, which is obviously
a fantastic way to market your
whole (roster) of games.”
But Coombe says he’s
starting to come around to
the idea of releasing games
with a price tag again, partially because it seems some
consumers are getting sick
of the freemium concept and
being nagged into paying for
upgrades.

Matt Coombe
Co-founder of Get Set Games

The characters of Mega Jump
Get set games

“We’re definitely a freemium-based company but
that’s not to say there aren’t
more and more reasons becoming apparent to start really thinking about potentially
making a high quality paid
app. I think we’re starting
to see ... people are starting
to yearn a bit more for paid
apps that are perhaps $4.99
or $9.99 because it’s the game
experience they want, they’re
willing to pay upfront to not
be bothered with all that
stuff,” he says.
Coombe says it seems like a
large proportion of people are
willing to start paying money
for apps if they feel they’ll get
value from it.
There’s still another challenge Get Set Games faces
in the App Store, which has
more than a million titles to
choose from.
Users who hear about
Mega Jump 2 and try searching for it by name will find it’s
not the first search result, or
the second. For some reason,
games called Icy Tower 2 and
Ninja Revinja appear first.
“It is disappointing when
you have a specific game title
— it’s a No. 1 app, it’s been
downloaded millions of times
— and when you type in the
exact name it doesn’t show
up No. 1, that is surprising,”
Coombe says.
“It does point to issues of
discoverability on the App
Store. There are huge amounts
of apps, huge amounts of
games — some great, some
not so great — and I think it’s
going to become more and
more important, if it’s not
already exceptionally important, for players to be able to
find the games they want faster and to allow good developers to be seen and not smothered by a lot of lower quality
applications.”
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Not a dry eye in the house
when this meat loaf performs
Rose Reisman
For more, visit
rosereisman.com or
follow her on twitter
@rosereisman

Meatloaf has always been a
classic family favourite. It’s
about time we add some pizzazz to this traditional dish.
Using ground chicken or
turkey is a leaner way to go.
Four ounces of ground chicken
have only 108 calories and one
gram of fat compared to regular ground beef, with its 310
calories and 20 grams of fat!
I take the ground chicken
Nutritional information

mixture and layer it, using
roasted red peppers, sun-dried
tomatoes and Monterey Jack
cheese. This not only adds flavour but is also beautiful when
sliced.
For a variation, you can
try making mini meat loaves
by using either a muffin cup
mould or mini loaf pan. Divide
mixture into 12 servings.
The key to cooking poultry
is to be sure it’s always baked
thoroughly, reaching an internal temperature of 165 F. I
like to use the digital instant
thermometer probe. Just preset it to 165 F and insert into
the middle of the loaf until
temperature is met.
You can buy roasted red bell
peppers in water packed in
a jar or roast a small red pepper cut into quarters in a 425F oven for 15 minutes or just
until the skin blisters. Remove
the skin and chop.

Directions
1. Preheat the oven to 425 F.

Flash food
From your fridge
to your table in
30 minutes or less

2.

In a bowl, combine the
ground
chicken,
bread
crumbs, garlic, egg, onion,
ketchup, dried basil and salt
and pepper until well mixed.

3.

Pat half the chicken mixture into the prepared loaf
pan. Sprinkle with the green
onions, red pepper and sundried tomatoes.

4. Mix the Monterey Jack and
Parmesan cheeses and add all
but 2 tbsp of the cheese mixture to the loaf. Pat the remaining chicken mixture over
the filling
.
5. Bake for 20 minutes or
until the interior temperature
reaches 165 F. Sprinkle with
the remaining cheese and

blender or food processor. Garnish with basil.
Place cheese on bread to
make a sandwich. Spray both
sides of bread with cooking
spray and sauté in hot skillet
for 2 minutes per side just until
cheese melts. Cut sandwich
into 8 squares and garnish
each soup with two squares.
Rose Reisman

bake for 2 minutes or until the
cheese melts. The Best of Rose
Reisman (Whitecap Books) by Rose
Reisman

This recipe serves six. Mike McColl, from The Best of Rose Reisman (Whitecap Books)

When you Drink the Moo
Remember the Sarcan Blue

14

SPORTS

metronews.ca
Monday, March 10, 2014

Skiers score pair
of medals in Sochi
Sochi Paralympics.
Success on slopes
carries over to the rink,
as the sledge hockey
team moves to 2-0
Canada won two medals on the
slopes and the sledge hockey
team continued to roll Sunday
at the Sochi Winter Paralympic
Games.
Visually impaired skier Mac
Marcoux of Sault Ste. Marie,
Ont., and guide Robin Femy
of Mont-Tremblant, Que., won
their second bronze medal in
as many days, finishing third in
the super-G. The pair finished
with a time of one minute
20.77 seconds.
Teammate Caleb Brousseau
of Terrace, B.C., took bronze in
the super-G men’s sitting division, winning his first career
Paralympic medal. Brousseau
put down a time of 1:22.05.
In sledge hockey, Adam
Dixon scored twice and Dominic Larocque added a goal and
an assist Sunday as Canada de-

feated Norway 4-0.
Anthony Gale and Kevin
Rempel added two assists,
while Corbin Watson had to
make just six saves to get the
shutout as Canada improved
to 2-0.
Larocque scored on the
power play 4:20 into the second
period to snap a scoreless tie.
It was his third of the tournament after picking up two goals
in Canada’s 10-1 victory over
Sweden on Saturday.
Dixon, who had two goals
and two assists against Sweden,
then made it 2-0 with 4:26 to go
in the second before making it
3-0 at 1:07 of the third.
Marc Dorion then scored his
first of the tournament with
21.8 seconds left in the game to
round out the scoring.
Dixon and Gale both have
six points after two games.
Canada has an off-day on
Monday before taking on the
Czech Republic on Tuesday.
Norway, which defeated
Canada in the bronze-medal
game at the 2010 Vancouver
Paralympics, will meet Sweden
the same day.
THE CANADIAN PRESS

Other results

• Calgary skier Kurt Oatway
was ninth in the men’s
sitting division, and Kirk
Schornstein of Spruce
Grove, Alta., was 13th in
the men’s standing category.
• Sitting skier Josh Dueck
of Kimberley, B.C., and
standing skiers Matt Hallat
of Coquitlam, B.C., and
Braydon Luscombe of
Duncan, B.C., did not ﬁnish
their runs.

HNIC. Strombo to step into
MacLean’s shoes: Report
George
Stroumboulopoulos
will reportedly be the next host
of Hockey Night in Canada.
TSN’s Bob McKenzie tweeted the host of CBC’s George
Stroumboulopoulos
Tonight
will become the face of the
show when Rogers Communications Inc. takes control of
Canada’s NHL broadcasting
rights next season.
McKenzie also reports the

Coach’s Corner segment
will continue
another two
years.
McKenzie says Ron
MacLean will
George
Stroumboulopoulos still be involved with a
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reduced role.
THE CANADIAN PRESS

Lady Huskies take
regional title
The University of Saskatchewan Huskies women’s
basketball team is once again
Canada West champions.
The Huskies picked up
their third ever regional
hoops title by downing the
University of Fraser Valley
Cascades 67-56 Saturday night
at the Final Four tournament
in Edmonton.
The title is Saskatchewan’s

second in the past four
seasons.
Both Saskatchewan and
Fraser Valley will participate
in the CIS championship
running from March 14-16 in
Windsor.
METRO

CIS basketball

Men’s Huskies finish
tied for 5th in nation
Riding the strength of a
27-point third quarter, the

University of Saskatchewan
Huskies blew past the McGill
RedMen 75-59 in a consolation game Saturday at the CIS
men’s basketball championship at the Canadian Tire
Centre in Ottawa.
With the win, the Huskies
finish tied for fifth place with
the McMaster Marauders
in the national university
basketball championship
tournament.
The Carleton Ravens
topped the University of
Ottawa in the championship
game on Sunday. METRO

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Horoscopes

Aries

March 21 - April 20
The planets are encouraging
you to break out of a rut and
live closer to the edge for a
while. Security is all well but an
Aries needs excitement too, so
do something out of the
ordinary this week.

Taurus

April 21 - May 21
Speak your mind today. If
certain people don’t like it
that’s just too bad — in fact it’s
a good sign. Jupiter in the
communications area of your
chart indicates your words will
have the desired effect.

Gemini

May 22 - June 21
Challenges keep coming, and
you keep dealing with them in
your own way. There are few
things that faze you and what
life chooses to throw at you
over the next seven days, you
will handle it with ease.

Cancer

June 22 - July 23
You will be at your best this
week. Jupiter in your sign
makes all things possible and,
more importantly, makes you
believe all things are possible. If
you possess self-belief, there is
nothing you can’t accomplish.

Leo

July 24 - Aug. 23
Try not to commit yourself to
anything that can’t be changed
at a moment’s notice. The
planets are unsettled, so be
prepared to drop what you are
working on and start something new and exciting.

Virgo

Aug. 24 - Sept. 23
No matter what problems you
face over the next few days,
you’ll be able to deal with
them. Get them out of the way
quicker by asking for help.

Libra

Sept. 24 - Oct. 23
You will make an impression
over the next seven days but
will it be of the right sort? That
depends on how well you get
along with the people you
work with and for. Be
confident but not arrogant.

Scorpio

Oct. 24 - Nov. 22
You won’t have to work hard to
get what you want this week.
With both Sun and Jupiter on
your side, others will happily
provide you with whatever it is
that is good for you.

Sagittarius

Nov. 23 - Dec. 21
Doors that have been closed
to you in the past will start to
open over the next few days
but for some reason you may
decide not to walk through.
Even if you cannot explain
your reluctance, listen to what
your inner voice tells you.

Capricorn

Dec. 22 - Jan. 20
Don’t get carried away with
your success. The current
cosmic picture makes most
things possible for you but
that does not mean you
should try to do everything.

Aquarius

Jan. 21 - Feb. 19
You may have to force yourself
to be enthusiastic about what
has to be done today but it will
be worth the effort. By
midweek, everyone will be
patting you on the back.

Pisces

Feb. 20 - March 20
Is what you are doing with
your life what you want to be
doing? If not, think about what
changes you can make to
bring your reality in line with
your dreams. Jupiter makes all
things possible. Sally BROMPTON